Gustav Leopold Klein

Gustav Leopold Klein (* around 1794 ; † 1862 in Kowalken ) was a German civil servant and politician.

Klein received private tuition and passed his school leaving examination as an external student. From 1810 he studied law in Königsberg. His studies were interrupted when he volunteered as a hunter in the Wars of Liberation in 1813/14. In 1815 he became second lieutenant in the 2nd Landwehr Infantry Regiment. In 1815 he became an unskilled worker in the government office in Gumbinnen and in 1818 district secretary at the district office in Lötzen. There he temporarily represented the district administrator and after his death in 1826 applied unsuccessfully for the successor. In 1827 he resigned from the civil service due to incapacity to work and ran his Kowalken estate.

In 1835 he took over the interim administration of the district office in Goldap and applied for the district office there after the district administrator's death in 1836. He was also elected first candidate, but the Ministry of the Interior declined the appointment and ordered a new election. With 16 of 24 votes, Klein was re-elected as the first candidate and in 1837 also appointed as district administrator in the Goldap district. In 1845 he was temporarily civil commissioner for the intended lowering of the great Masurian Lakes. He was also the border commissioner for the border with the Kingdom of Poland. On April 30, 1855, he retired from active service.

From 1835 to 1837 he was district deputy in the district of Goldap and was a member of the provincial parliament of the province of Prussia . From 1850 to 1852 he was a member of the Second Prussian Chamber . In 1850 he was a member of the Volkshaus of the Erfurt Union Parliament .

On January 16, 1842 he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 4th Class, and on January 29, 1855, the Order of the Red Eagle, 3rd Class, with the ribbon.

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : The German Parliament (Erfurt Union Parliament) from 1850. A manual: Members, officials, life data, parliamentary groups (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Large series, Vol. 6). Urban & Fischer, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-437-31128-X , p. 185.